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African Slavery

Baptists and the American Civil War: August 5, 1862

Week to week, white Southern Baptists are busy defending African slavery and denigrating the United States for attempting to thwart God’s express will for the African race. Several items in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index focus on this very theme. One article castigates Northern Baptists for their duplicity in such decidedly ungodly doings, by…

August 5, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
African Slavery

Baptists and the American Civil War: May 1, 1862

During the war, many white Southerners repeatedly refer to the “Cause” of the South, a reference (sometimes blatant, and at other times thinly-veiled) to the preservation of African slavery, the economic and social foundation of the Confederacy. Many white Christians of the South insist that the Southern “Cause” is the will of God, a view…

May 1, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Samuel Boykin

Baptists and the American Civil War: February 26, 1862

News of the Union occupation of Nashville is filtering throughout the South, accompanied by no little alarm. Days will pass before the Baptist press is able to comment on this unfortunate turn of events for the Confederacy. At the moment, however, a currently circulating editorial by Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, offers…

February 26, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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